Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3.8 Max vs StarCoder 2 7B

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#21); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

56.0

Rank #21 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 7B NVIDIA

36.5

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen3.8 Max scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 7B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3.8 Max leads 52.3 to 34.2.
  • StarCoder 2 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 7B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)NVIDIA
Noometry Index56.036.5
Released2026-08-022024-02-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output131K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked387

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 52.3 (#30), StarCoder 2 7B: 34.2

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 7B
DeepSWE57.5%—
LMArena WebDev1671—
FrontierSWE15.8%—
SciCode52.9%—
LMArena Coding1499—
BigCodeBench Complete—27.7%
HumanEval+—29.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 42.6 (#17), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 7B
τ²-bench Banking55.1%—
GDP.pdf23.2%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 53.4 (#26), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 7B
Epoch Capabilities Index156.6992.92
NYT Connections (extended)88.3%—
CritPt20%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1493—
Mystery Game Puzzles38%—
DTBench92%—
LMCA46.2%—
WinoGrande—57.1%

Math Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 73.1 (#15), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 7B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)74.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 446.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench58%—
LMArena Math1498—
GSM8K—32.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#25), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 7B
GPQA Diamond92.7%—
SimpleQA Verified47.3%—
LMArena Expert1504—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—38.7%
MMLU—38.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 36.9 (#70), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Vision1314—
Furniture Assembly20%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 56.6 (#18), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Non-English1468—
LMArena Chinese1537—
LMArena French1502—
LMArena German1489—
LMArena Japanese1466—
LMArena Korean1467—
LMArena Russian1478—
LMArena Spanish1495—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 77.7 (#19), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Instruction Following1478—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 45.5 (#30), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Longer Query1486—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 67.0 (#31), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Text1480—
LMArena Creative Writing1478—
LMArena Multi-Turn1487—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.8 Max better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#21); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Qwen3.8 Max or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

Qwen3.8 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.3 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.8 Max and StarCoder 2 7B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3.8 Max has 38 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.

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